We are delighted to present the EY Family Business Yearbook 2017.The book is designed to celebrate excellence in family businesses, to present some of our latest thinking on the issues facing today’s family firms and to provide a glimpse of what is going on inside some of the world’s greatest family businesses in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia-Pacific.

Smooth succession is at the heart of the health and longevity of family businesses. EY teamed with the University of St. Gallen to compare 69 different countries’ inheritance rules with regard to family business succession to identify the economies that offer the best conditions for family business transfer. This survey contains new and unexpected insights into global inheritance taxes and their impact on family businesses.

Join the EY NextGen Academy 2017. Our unique and exclusive one-week training event is designed for young successors in family businesses. To find out more information about the NextGen Acadamy, click here.

Decentralized freedom or centralized control? One culture, or many? Discover how Vinita and Nilesh Gupta, CEO and Managing Director of Lupin Limited transformed their family business through strategic acquisitions.

With uncertainty as a guaranteed constant in the lifetime of a business, implementing robust risk management is a key element of a company’s ability to adapt and thrive. Discover how Gonzalo Bofill, Chairman of Carozzi disastrous fire led to the transformation of his family business.

Our new study was conducted as part of a large-scale international survey of family business owners and managers, which encompasses 525 responses from 21 countries. It sheds new light on key themes such as, how family businesses approach philanthropy, what drives philanthropic decisions, the role that government incentives play and how effectiveness is measured and evaluated.

This revised edition, which was first published in 2013, offers a step-by-step guide for setting up a family office and provides ideas on the current leading practice for those who already have a family office in place. To find out more, click here.

In our previous study, Coming home or breaking free? Career choice intentions of the next generation in family businesses (2011), we explored what motivates students to pursue a career in the family business. In this study, we continue that exploration of succession intentions but with an even broader international scope. To find out more, click here.

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